Education & Experience:

Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, 1988, University of Washington, Seattle.
M.S. in Hydrogeology & Ecology, 1980, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
B.A. in Geology, magma cum laude, 1976, Carleton College, Minnesota.
Professor of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 2001-now
Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, U.K., 2004-2005
Faculty Research Associate, BGSU Center for Policy Analysis & Public Service, 1999-2003
Associate Professor of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 1994-2001
Assistant Professor of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 1988-1994
Legislative Assistant for the Honorable Michael Lowry, 7^th District of  Washington State, United States House of Representatives, 1987-1988  

Specialty Areas of Interest:

Sedimentary Geology: interpretation of depositional environments, facies analysis, stratigraphy, interpretation of sedimentary structures, tectonics and sedimentation.
Surface water hydrology: sediment transport, physical flow conditions, removals of dams, river restoration, contaminated sediment, public policy.
Environmental geology: geological hazards such as coastal erosion, mass wasting, flooding; geological resource analysis, human impacts on soil erosion and reservoir sedimentation rates.
Paleoclimatic analysis: interpretation of paleosols, tufas and travertines, loessites.

Current BGSU Courses:

GEOL 100 Introductory Geology
GEOL 104 Earth Environments
GEOL 316 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
GEOL 445/545 Surface Water Hydrology
GEOL 480 Seminar in Geology and Public Policy
GEOL 493/494/693 Geology Field Camp (summer—Colorado and New Mexico)
GEOL 623 Sedimentary Environments
GEOL 645 Sedimentary Basin Analysis

Continuing Education or Service Activities:

Committee on Research Grants, Geological Society of America (2008-2011).
Executive Board (Vice Chair), Ohio Dam Safety Organization (2007-present).
Lake Erie Shoreline Erosion Management Plan External Workgroup, Ohio Department of Natural Resources (2007-present).
Convener, Theme Session, Geological Society of America (2007).
Editor, special issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research about the impact of dam removals in Ohio on the geology and ecology of Lake Erie (2006-2007).
Panel Reviewer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2006-2007).  Reviewed approximately 35 grant proposals for this assignment.
Symposium organizer of a special session on dam removals at the North-Central Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America (2006).
Field Trip Leader, Geological Society of America conference (2006).
Invited Member, Ottawa River Remedial Action Plan Committee, Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (2004-present).
Field Trip Leader, Geological Society of America conference (2003)
Project Team Member, Secor Dam removal, Ottawa River (2002-present).
Geology & Public Policy Committee, Geological Society of America (Chair 1999-2000, Member 1989-1992, 1997-2001).
Symposium organizer of a special session on dam removals at the Geological Society of America annual meeting (2000).
Presentations to U.S. Congressional Staff and local government officials for the BGSU Center for Policy Analysis and Public Service (1999-2003).
Invited Member, Sediment Erosion Reduction Committee, Wood County Soil & Water Conservation District (1995-1996)
Membership Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1995-2001).
Campus Representative, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) (1995-present).
Campus Representative, Geological Society of America (1989-present).
Campus Representative, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1989-present).
Organizer and leader of geological field trips at conferences (1989).
BGSU Chapter of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society of North America): President (1997-1998), Vice President (1996-1997), Secretary (1994-1995).
Ongoing Professional Service:

Paid Consultantships: Boeing Aerospace Company, Shell Oil Company, Atlantic-Richfield Oil Company.
Collaborative Research Partners: University of Toledo, Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve (NOAA), Badlands National Park (NPS), Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources.

Professional Distinctions

Executive Committee (Vice Chair), Ohio Dam Safety Organization (2007-present).
Nominated for BGSU Faculty Distinguished Service Award (2006).
Chair of the BGSU Faculty Senate (2001-2002).
Distinguished Service Award from the Geological Society of America (2001).
Honorary Fellow of the Ohio Academy of Sciences (1998).
Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America (1997).
Best Paper Award from the Ohio Journal of Science (1997).
Chair, Committee on Geology & Public Policy, Geological Society of America (1999-2000).
Distinguished Service Award from the Geological Society of America (1992).
Nominated for BGSU Master Teacher Award (1990).
Distinguished Service Award, American Association for Advancement of Science (1988).
Congressional Science Fellow of the Geological Society of America (1987-1988).
Congressional Liaison to the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Marine Science Board, Panel on Contaminated Marine Sediments (1987-1988).

Recent and Current Research or Grants:

Dam Removals in Northern Ohio.  Projects include feasibility study for the removal of Ballville Dam (Sandusky River), feasibility study for the removal of dams on the Maumee River, feasibility study for the removal of Secor Dam (Ottawa River) and follow-up studies on the impact of its removal, and follow-up studies on the impact of removal of Coho Dam (Huron River).

• Evans, J.E.(2007-2008) Field testing sediment transport models for dam removals.  BGSU Faculty Research Committee ($13,300).
• Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (Evans, J.E., co-PI) (2006-2008) Ottawa River dam removal and stream restoration, Lucas County, Ohio.  Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Section 319(h) Non-point Source Program Grant ($204,970).
• Evans, J.E. (2005-2006) Ohio Board of Regents Instructional Equipment Grant ($30,300).
• J.F. Gottgens and J.E. Evans (co-PI), (2002-2004), Dam removal in the Ottawa River, Ohio: A feasibility study needed for comprehensive regional planning.  Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Management Assistance Grant, ($39,990).

Coastal Evolution of the Lake Erie shoreline.  The emphasis is on strandline development near the Portage River delta and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.
Subsurface Geology of the Rose Run Formation, Eastern Ohio.  The work is based on microfacies analysis from cores and geophysical log data from the Appalachian Basin.Depositional Environments of Paleozoic Rocks in Southwestern Colorado.  The research is based upon surface outcrop studies on several stratigraphic units.

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications and Submissions:

Evans, J.E., 2007. Sediment impacts of the 1994 failure of IVEX Dam (Chagrin River, Northeastern Ohio), as a case study in dam removals. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 33(2): 90-102.

Evans, J.E. and J.F. Gottgens, 2007. Contaminant stratigraphy of the Ballville Reservoir, Sandusky River, northwestern Ohio. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 33(2):182-193.

Murphy, R.P.*, E. Gomezdelcampo, and J.E. Evans, 2007. Using pre-existing channel substrates to determine the effectiveness of best management practices, Sandusky River, Ohio. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 33(2): 167-181.

Evans, J.E., J.M. Huxley*, and R.K. Vincent, 2007. Upstream channel changes following dam construction and removal, using a GIS/remote sensing approach. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 43(3): 683-697. DOI 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00055.

Roberts, S.J., J.F. Gottgens, A.L. Spongberg, J.E. Evans, and N.S. Levine, 2007. Integrated approach to assessing potential dam removals: An example from the Ottawa River, NW Ohio. Environmental Management, 39(1): 113-124.

Evans, J.E. and J.M. Reed*, 2006. Integrated loessite-paleokarst depositional system, early Pennsylvanian Molas Formation, Paradox Basin, southwestern Colorado, U.S.A. Sedimentary Geology, 195(3-4): 161-181. DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.07.010.

Evans, J.E. and J.M. Reed*, 2006. Pennsylvanian fluvial cave sediments in the Mississippian Leadville Limestone, southwestern Colorado, U.S.A. The Mountain Geologist, 43(4): 283-297.

Evans, J.E., 2003. The environmental trade-off of dams, dam removals, and river restoration, in Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation, Past and Present: Sedimentology, Hydrology, Historical, and Environmental Significance (A.M. Foos, editor), Ohio Geological Survey Guidebook 18: 48-53.

Evans, J.E., 2003. The Early Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation of Northeastern Ohio, U.S.A., in Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation, Past and Present: Sedimentology, Hydrology, Historical, and Environmental Significance (A.M. Foos, editor), Ohio Geological Survey Guidebook 18: 6-12.

Evans, J.E., N.S. Levine, S.J. Roberts, J.F. Gottgens, and D.M. Newman*, 2002. Assessment using GIS and sediment routing of the proposed removal of Ballville Dam, Sandusky River, Ohio. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38(6): 1549-1565.

Ninke, D.J.* and J.E. Evans, 2002. Alluvial architecture of the Early Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation in northeastern Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 102(4): 70-81.

Evans, J.E., 2002. Re-interpretation of unconformities in the Hermosa Formation near Coal Bank Pass, SW Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 39(1): 1-15.

Dawson, S.A.* and J.E. Evans, 2001. Controls over mass wasting processes in glacial till bluffs along the coastline of Lake Erie. Environmental Geosciences 8(1): 1-10.

Evans, J.E., J.F. Gottgens, W.M. Gill*, and S.D. Mackey, 2000. Sediment yields controlled by intrabasinal storage and sediment conveyance over the interval 1842-1994: Chagrin River, northeast Ohio, U.S.A. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 55(3): 264-270.

Evans, J.E., S.D. Mackey, J.F. Gottgens, and W.M. Gill*, 2000. Lessons from a dam failure. Ohio Journal of Science 100(4): 121-131.

Evans, J.E. and F.J. Tokar*, 2000. Use of SEM/EDS and X-ray diffraction analyses for sand transport studies of Lake Erie, Ohio. Journal of Coastal Research 16(3): 790-797.

Evans, J.E., 2000. Lacustrine facies in an Eocene wrench-fault step-over basin, Cascade Range, Washington, U.S.A., in Lake Basins in Space and Time (E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts, editors). Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology 46: 359-368.

Evans, J.E. and L.C. Welzenbach*, 2000. Lacustrine limestones and tufas in the Chadron Formation (Late Eocene), Badlands of South Dakota, U.S.A., in Lake Basins in Space and Time (E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts, editors). Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology 46: 349-358.

Evans, J.E., S.D. Mackey, J.F. Gottgens, and W.M. Gill*, 2000. From reservoir to wetland: The rise and fall of an Ohio Dam, in The Earth Around Us (J. Schneiderman, editor). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman Press, p. 256-267.

Evans, J.E., 1999. Recognition and implications of Eocene tufas and travertines in the Chadron Formation, White River Group, Badlands of South Dakota, U.S.A. Sedimentology 46: 771-789.

Evans, J.E. and L.C. Welzenbach*, 1998. Episodes of carbonate deposition in a siliciclastic-dominated fluvial sequence, Eocene-Oligocene White River Group, South Dakota and Nebraska, U.S.A. in Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America (D.O. Terry, Jr., H.E. LaGarry, and R.M. Hunt, Jr., editors), Geological Society of America, Special Paper 325: 93-116.

Evans, J.E., 1998. Facies associations of freshwater carbonates in the Eocene-Oligocene Chadron Formation, White River Group, Nebraska and South Dakota, in Modern and Ancient Lakes (J.K. Pittman and A. Carroll, editors), Utah Geological Association, Guidebook 26: 209-231.

Evans, J.E. and D.E. Seamon*, 1997. A GIS model to calculate sediment yields from a small rural watershed, Old Woman Creek, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 97: 44-52.

Bates, J.K.* and J.E. Evans, 1996. Evaluation of wellhead protection area delineation methods, applied to the municipal well field at Elmore, Ottawa County, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 96: 13-22.

Evans, J.E., 1994. Depositional history of the Eocene Chumstick Formation: Implications of tectonic partitioning for the history of the Leavenworth and Entiat-Eagle Creek fault systems, Washington. Tectonics 13: 1425-1444.

Evans, J.E. and J.R. Ristow, Jr.*, 1994. Depositional history of the southeastern outcrop belt of the Chuckanut Formation: implications for the Darrington-Devils Mountain and Straight Creek fault zones, Washington (U.S.A.). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 31: 1727-1743.

Evans, J.E., 1994. Tectonics and sedimentation of the Chumstick Formation, central Washington state, in Epithermal Gold Mineralization, Wenatchee and Liberty Districts, Washington (J. Margolis, editor), Society of Economic Geologists, Guidebook 20: 18-30.

Evans, J.E. and D.O. Terry, Jr.*, 1994. The significance of incision and fluvial sedimentation in the basal White River Group (Eocene-Oligocene), Badlands of South Dakota. Sedimentary Geology 90: 137-152.

Terry, D.O., Jr.* and J.E. Evans, 1994. Pedogenesis and paleoclimatic implications of the Chamberlain Pass Formation, basal White River Group, Badlands of South Dakota. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 110: 197-215.

Tokar, F.J., Jr.* and J.E. Evans, 1993. Implications of hummocky stratified sandstone in the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone (Late Cretaceous) near Durango, Colorado. Ohio Journal of Science 93: 83-89.

Evans, J.E., 1991. Paleoclimatology and paleobotany of the Eocene Chumstick Formation, Cascade Range, Washington (U.S.A.): A rapidly subsiding alluvial basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 88: 239-264.

Evans, J.E., 1991. Facies relationships, alluvial architecture, and paleohydrology of a Paleogene, humid-tropical alluvial-fan system: Chumstick Formation, Washington state (U.S.A.). Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 61: 732-755.

Evans, J.E. and S.Y. Johnson, 1989. Paleogene strike-slip basins of central Washington: Swauk Formation and Chumstick Formation, in Geologic Guidebook for Washington and Adjacent Areas (N.L. Johnson and others, editors), Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources, Information Circular 86: 213-237.

Johnson, T.C., J.E. Evans, and S.J. Eisenreich, 1982. Total organic carbon in Lake Superior sediments: comparison with hemipelagic and pelagic marine environments. Limnology and Oceanography 27: 481-491.

Evans, J.E., T.C. Johnson, E.C. Alexander, Jr. and R.S. Lively, 1981. Sedimentation rates and depositional processes in Lake Superior using 210Pb geochronology. Journal of Great Lakes Research 7: 299-310.

Johnson, T.C., T. Carlson, and J.E. Evans, 1980. Contourites in Lake Superior. Geology 8: 437-441.

Eisenreich, S.J., G. Hollod, T.C. Johnson, and J.E. Evans, 1979. Polychlorinated biphenyl and other microcontaminant-sediment interactions in Lake Superior, in Contaminants in Sediments (R.A. Baker, editor). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Science Publishing Company, p. 67-94.

Manuscripts in Preparation or Submission

Evans, J.E., (in preparation), Late Eocene unroofing of the Black Hills uplift.

Evans, J.E., (in preparation), Reinterpretation of the Devonian Dartmouth Group of SW England as a shelf-margin deltaic sequence.

Vandevelde, D.* and J.E. Evans, (in preparation), Sedimentology of the Morrison Formation at some significant dinosaur sites, east-central Utah.

Richardson, J.* and J.E. Evans, (in preparation), Preservation potential of biological microstructures in ancient tufas and travertines.

Saeed, A.* and J.E. Evans, (in preparation), Subsurface facies analysis of the Mt. Simon Sandstone in east-central Ohio.

Evans, J.E., (in preparation), Pre-Devonian coarse-grained marine shoreline deposits of southwestern Colorado.

Faw, M.* and J.E. Evans, (in preparation), A field-based, pedogenic classification of paleo-histosols (coals).